The Museum of Modern Art’s annual film preservation showcase, To Save and Project, will conclude with a screening of Charlie Chaplin’s “Shoulder Arms,” a comedy from 1918 featuring Chaplin as an American soldier during World War I. The film was shot with two cameras, resulting in multiple versions created by Chaplin for different markets, with varying quality due to degradation and technical issues during subsequent re-releases. MoMA has been working on a restoration of the original 1918 version, using surviving prints to reconstruct the film as closely as possible to what American audiences saw at the time.
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In the first weeks of the Trump administration, over two million federal workers faced abrupt changes to job protections and telework policies, with an offer to resign by Feb. 6 in exchange for pay until late September. Concerns arose over potential brain drain and diminished government quality as experienced employees leave, despite the administration expecting 5 to 10 percent of the workforce to take the offer. Federal workers voiced skepticism over the legality and motives...
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